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Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 9th 2026
12.00: DEARG MOR – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/AIDAN HOWARD) 12.30: RATTLEDLATCH (IAN POWER/JOHN QUEALLY) 1.00: SMOKIN ACES (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.30: COEXIST (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.03: BOMBAY PAT – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 2.38: SHIRZAN – EW – (BEN KENNEDY/PAUL FAHEY) 3.13: BIRDIE CONWAY – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 3.45: HEAD FOR…
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Yes, referees are important – but so is accountability
A few years ago now, emerging Meath referee Keith Sheerin approached me prior to throwing in the ball at a match in Dunshaughlin. For once, I knew I couldn’t have said or done anything to pi** the whistler off. Not that it could or would be just him. One is accutely aware that with at…
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Selections for Naas – Nov. 8th 2026
12.00: MOYLUSSA (DAN KING/MAIK MAGNUSSEN) 12.30: THE MOURNE RAMBLER (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 1.00: LOVE ME TENDER (II) (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.30: CLAUDE DU VAL – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 2.04: DABOYA – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/DICK DONOHOE) 2.39: BOWENSONFIRE – W/O FAV – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.13: KOKTAIL BRUT – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON…
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Hugo hits the high notes as first box is ticked
IRELAND…42 ARGENTINA…12 I’m not sure of the concept of giving a player who registers a hat-trick of tries exists in rugby but even if that’s a negative, anybody with a heart would surely give it to Hugo Keenan anyway given the imperious performance delivered by the unfortunately injury prone Leinster utility back. Though if acknowledging…
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Selections for Gowran Park – Nov. 7th 2026
12.10: SIXANDAHALF (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 12.45: PRINCESS AIVEEN – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (5)/W. R. CRAWFORD) 1.20: BREAK MY SOUL (KEITH DONOGHUE/IAN DONOGHUE) 1.50: LOADSTONE – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.20: RECKLESS (JOSH WILLIAMSON (3)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.55: FIGARO – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/TOM MULLINS) 3.30: A SNOW WHITE PARK (DANNY MULLINS/MAGS MULLINS) 4.00: JOLLY…
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Selections for Dundalk – Nov. 6th 2026
5.15: GRANDE CUVEE (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/FOZZY STACK) 5.45: SENSATIONAL FILLY (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.15: SOARING SUN (ROBYN DONAGHUE-LEAHY (4*)/PAT FLYNN) 6.45: DANCING SAXON (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.15: NAVAL GAZER – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.45: DALER (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 8.15: WEGOTOGETHER – EW – (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL)
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Murphy bows out once more
Meath’s prospects – and that of every other team in Div 1 of the National Football League of getting a result against Donegal increased quite a bit this evening that Michael Murphy has again announced his retirement from inter county football at the age of 37. The great man from Glenswilly had originally bowed out…
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Is Andy actually looking towards the future?
Do not adjust your television. This may not be a drill. It recalls the episode of The Simpsons in which Homer and Abe fulfill one of the latter’s long held wishes to return to Tom O’Flanagan’s pub… In Ireland! The old hostelry had been derelict of patrons for so long ol’ Tom couldn’t remember how…
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Selections for Clonmel – Nov. 5th 2026
12.50: UNFLINCHING (JOSH WILLIAMSON (3)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.25: ROKANANKO (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (3)/EDDIE POWER) 2.00: ZOFFMAN (CONOR STONE-WALSH/NOEL MEADE) 2.35: DINOBLUE (HARRY COBDEN/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.10: IL ETAIT TEMPS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.45: KELLY’S COSMOS – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.20: RIVER CARTWRIGHT – EW – (FINN BUCKLEY (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL)
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Robot Rock – Chapter 2
And so, the ups and downs of a life in and around horse racing finds an upward curve once again. It’s exactly four months to the date since the first installment of this odyssey appeared in this space. Which was the horse’s debut for us. ‘Us’ being the Mulvany’s Bar Syndicate, of which I had…
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